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and collections suffered almost no damage. 

 The chemistry building lost small parts of 

 two walls, and the loss to apparatus and sup- 

 plies amounts to a few hundred dollars. The 

 present geological and metallurgic laboratories 

 are, with their contents, practically unhurt. 

 The large new geological building, nearly 

 completed, suffered serious injury. The 

 building in which the departments of physics 

 and psychology are housed lost a part of one 

 wall, but the equipment is but slightly dam- 

 aged. The laboratories and shops of the vari- 

 ous engineering departments show some in- 

 juries, all of which, however, can be easily and 

 quickly remedied. The really wrecked build- 

 ings are the famous church, great memorial 

 arch, museum and the large new library 

 and gymnasium buildings in course of erec- 

 tion. University work will begin again (it 

 has been suspended for the rest of the present 

 semester, about four weeks) on August 23, 

 the regular date for the opening of the next 

 college year. 



Vernon L. Kellogg. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE 

 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 

 The University of California suffered by 

 the loss of San Francisco investments, but 

 the buildings and their contents at Berkeley 

 suffered very little damage. Academic work, 

 interrupted for the present by relief work, in 

 which nearly all of the members of the faculty 

 are engaged, will shortly be resumed. We 

 understand also that the buildings of the 

 affiliated colleges in San Francisco were not 

 seriously injured. The Anthropological Mu- 

 seum is saved, and the building is undamaged, 

 the loss to the collections is inconsiderable 

 and altogether from earthquake. The most 

 fragile pieces of value were efficiently pro- 

 tected by appliances designed against earth- 

 quake shocks. The university's Mark Hop- 

 kins Institute of Art in San Francisco was 

 burned, but nearly all canvases were saved. 

 The Bancroft library of books and manu- 

 scripts relating to the history of the Pacific 

 coast, which recently came into the possession 

 of the university, has been saved. 



Among the direct losses by the fire which 



followed the earthquake in San Francisco 

 were the building, library and natural history 

 collections of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences. The building was materially injured 

 by the earthquake, its staircase in particular 

 suffering severely, but this did not prevent an 

 effort to rescue some of the more precious 

 material before the fire reached it. A small 

 party of curators and members climbed to the 

 laboratories and library on the upper floor 

 and brought away the tj^pe specimens in bot- 

 any, entomology and herpetology, together 

 with some manuscripts and the archives. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The American Chemical Society will meet 

 at Ithaca, N. T., June 28-30. The following 

 persons have been appointed as chairmen of 

 the various sections : 



Physical Chemistry, W. Lash Miller. 

 Inorganic Chemistry, L. M. Dennis. 

 Organic Chemistry, G. B. Frankforter. 

 Biological Chemistry, Waldemar Koch. 

 Agricultural Chemistry, E. B. Voorhees. 

 Industrial Chemistry, J. D. Pennock. 



A MEETING of those interested in the organ- 

 ization of an American association, similar in 

 scope to the Museums Association of Great 

 Britain, will, as we have already reported, take 

 place at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, on May 15, at 10:30 

 o'clock. A large number of men from various 

 parts of the country have expressed their in- 

 tention of being present, and at the conclusion 

 of the business of organization, it is proposed 

 to attend to the reading of papers upon various 

 museum subjects. On Tuesday luncheon will 

 be served at the American Museum, and on 

 Wednesday sessions will be held and luncheon 

 will be served at the Botanical Garden. It is 

 suggested that those who are strangers in New 

 York will find convenient quarters at reason- 

 able rates at the Hotel Endicott, corner of 

 Ninth Avenue and Eighty-first Street. 



The Eumford committee of the American 

 Academy has recently made grants to the 

 following persons in aid of the researches 

 specified : 



